Writers of the Future Contest Winner on the Road to Career as Professional Writer

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Ryan Harvey of Los Angeles went from non-published writer to contest winner and sought-after writer in one week's time. He learned that he had won the internationally acclaimed L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (www.writersofthefuture.com); and within a few days of that announcement going public, Harvey stated that he was approached by a major publishing house "who wants to look at my novels based on hearing about my placing in the contest! Things move fast..."  

The international Writers of the Future Contest was established in 1983 by L. Ron Hubbard to provide "a means for new and budding writers to have a chance for their creative efforts to be seen and acknowledged." And this is certainly the case in 2010 -- only at lightning speed in its 27th year running. The writing contest awards annual cash prizes totaling $30,000 for writers and illustrators of never-before-published works of science fiction and fantasy and has 4 quarterly winners throughout the year. It includes annual publication of the year's winning stories in the bestselling anthology titled L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future (Galaxy Press).

"My second publishing deal came at the reception of the ceremony when my Writers of the Future volume was released," said Dave Wolverton -- Grand Prize winner in Volume 3, twenty-four years ago, and now after multiple New York Times best-selling books, a contest judge. "The contest has become so successful that thousands now enter quarterly with the hope of getting big prize money and the exposure that winning the contest provides you. The contest winners today are getting the publishing attention they always have, only much, much faster."

Writers of the Future Contest judges include notable science fiction authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Mike Resnick, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Sean Williams, Dave Wolverton, K.D. Wentworth, Eric Flint, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith.

For more information about the writing contest, go to www.writersofthefuture.com.

SOURCE Writers of the Future Contest